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One Small Step conversation partners Sean McKell (53) and Erik Hendrickson (65), strangers, have a conversation about their backgrounds, families, careers, and beliefs, finding commonalities despite differences in age and life experiences.

Laura Peterson (52) of Delta Gamma Fraternity talks with alumnae Martha "Rigby" Duncan (83) about how she got started as an Alpha Xi Delta.

Casey spoke with her good friend, Courtney, about living with invisible disabilities. Casey has myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), formerly known as chronic fatigue syndrome, which was triggered by a COVID infection in 2021. In addition to ME and Long COVID, Casey...

Laura Peterson (52) talks with fellow Delta Gamma Fraternity member, Tracy Kelly Solheim (61), about her youth as a military kid as well as her subsequent writing career.

One Small Step conversation partners John Hisle (81) and Eric Spivack (45) discuss parenting, their vocational paths and changing systems of government.

Sorority sisters Laura Peterson (52) and Morgan Trevino (28) have a conversation about Delta Gamma.

Laura Peterson (51) interviews her mother, Esther Rudge (79), about her memories of her life as an organist and music teacher.

One Small Step partners Stephen Dareing (58) and MG Anderson (66) have a conversation about divisiveness created by the media, feeling patriotic and unpatriotic, and wanting a government that represents them.

Spouses Linda Green (68) and Mark Green (67) talk about their experiences with the military. They discuss being in the Air Force band.

One Small Step Partners, Justin Cummins (32) and Brian Baker (66), talk about how the military touched each of their lives and affected their political perspectives.

Jesse Leon, author of I'm Not Broken: A Memoir, talks with Carolyn Hightower, Deputy Director of the Office on Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, about the importance of sharing his story and the...

I followed military veterans from Connecticut on their Honor Flight to the capitol and followed them as they visited the war memorials and reminisced about those conflicts, their involvement in them and their lost friends

Colleagues Bryan Buckley (34) and Olivia Umoren (29) discuss growing up as the children of immigrants and their careers in health equity.

Patricia Larrabee (85) is interviewed by friend, Connie Harrison (68), about her life as a daring young woman and her time in the Marine Corps.

Stephen Simonds (98) tells his daughter, Laura Simonds-Rumpf (63), about his time in the Navy during World War II and also describes his career in Social Welfare and Human Services.

In celebration of Public Service Recognition Week, Carolyn Hightower, Deputy Director of the Office on Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, speaks with Katherine Chon, Director of the Office on Trafficking in Persons, about...

Dawn Heath-Fiedler (58) and her friend and colleague Heather Brewer (53) talk about their work caring for victims of human trafficking and educating young people to avoid being victims.

New friends Harold Bell (84) and Kiplyn Primus (61) talk about Harold's early life and how those experiences led him to a career in sports talk radio.

Siblings Caitlin Sigal (37) and Stephen Ginley (31) talk about their relationship over the years as well as their hopes for the future.

William "Bill" McMurrin (71) interviews his friend Timothy "Tim" Bywater (80) about his experience working as both a seasonal park ranger with the National Park Service and an English professor. They also talk about their friendship and Timothy's family.

September is National Preparedness Month! Katherine Chon, Director of the Office on Trafficking in Persons and Natalie Grant, Director of the Office of Human Services Emergency Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, spoke about...

Clint McGuire (55) talks with his former professor and long-time friend, Jack Benjamin (70), about Jack's early years in theatre and his role in building a theatre department from scratch at the University of South Carolina Aiken.

Theodora Niemeyer (82) interviews her friend Roger Norgaard (83) about his childhood, his golfing career, his experience flying helicopters for the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War, and the story of how he and Theodora, who were high school...

Kathryn Grady (51) interviews her mother, K. Jane Duncan (80), about her childhood, her travels, her teaching career, her experience raising two children as single mother, and how her attitude toward traditional gender roles has changed throughout the course of...

Amy Coulliette (51) interviews her father, Richard Allen (70), about his childhood in the Tunas, Missouri, his experience serving in the U.S. Navy, his retirement in the Ozarks region, and the characters that he has met along the way.